Alabamians will get riled about politics, no doubt. All sorts of half-heard opinions will emerge from even the mildest non-partisan. But to get someone really riled, to get them hopping mad as my mom might say, start opining on God and football. That’s when the rubber of patience meets the road of go to hell in Alabama.

David Simon could create a series about feral cats living on an Outer Banks island and people would watch.

Ain’t no city like New Orleans.

Young Bartley gives Younger Bartley advice on how on college life.

Some sucker vs. the Haley Center Haymaker

Garrido sees baseball as a simulacrum of life. For him, all important lessons in life are contained within baseball.

I had a Friday Night Lights’ moment driving down Donahue yesterday. It was round dusk, 6:45 or so.

“What do you want to be when you grow up, Ben?” Don’t say Jedi. Don’t say Jedi. Don’t say Jedi.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one of the most ambitious books I’ve ever read. It’s not really about Zen, and it’s not really about motorcycles.

David Shields comes at you like an Auburn street preacher, all didacticism and surety.